This is just to say... I have stolen the work that you spent years creating and which you were probably hoping would pay your bills But online sharing doesn't count It's actually a compliment So fuck you BTW, I'm a fan
Chuffed to be hosting the Q & A after this marvellous film’s opening screening at @irishfilminstitute.bsky.social next Friday 11th September
Break Out Pictures@breakoutpictures.bsky.social · 2w agoOne week to go...🎹🎶🎞️⌚ 'Everybody Digs Bill Evans' Directed by Grant Gee Written by Mark O'Halloran with a star studded cast BOOK NOW www.breakoutpictures.com/movie/everyb...
In the middle of an escalating climate crisis: Subsidise fossil-fuelled car use and encourage more driving? Irish Government: Yes. Make public transport better, cheaper and more accessible? Irish Government: Nope. In fact, let’s make it more expensive. Make it make sense.
Commuters to face increased fares on buses and trains
Rising cost of State funding for public services has been a spending concern for some time
irishtimes.com
Giving a billion euro to subsidise diesel and then hiking public transport fares FFS
Conor@ernekid.bsky.social · 2w agoYes it can! That’s literally the point of the government!!!
Got so annoyed at this I wrote a little post: blog.karlstanley.ie/fare-hikes-w...
Fare Hikes - what now?
Today, the NTA announced that public transport fares are to be raised by between 10% and 33% in January 2027. According to the Taoiseach, the reason behind this huge price hike is that Government "can...
blog.karlstanley.ie
Karl Stanley@karlstanley.bsky.social · 2w agoAbsolutely FUMING at Ministerial decision to hike public transport fares in a cost-of-living crisis. Govt subsidises fuel for motorists and wants public transport users to pay for it. Deeply unserious on-the-hoof policymaking yet again. www.socialdemocrats.ie/bus-and-rail...
If you're not using asbestos yet, you are being left behind. Everyone is using asbestos, there's no point in trying to fight it. Asbestos is the future.
One resident in Clondalkin’s account of living beside the noise issue at the nearby data centre. Sent to me on Tuesday.
"The atmosphere, the earth, the water & the water cycle-those things are good gifts. The ecosystems, the ecosphere, those are good gifts. We have to regard them as gifts because we couldn't make them. We have to regard them as good gifts because we couldn't live without them." -Wendell Berry #RIP
The CEO of Warners thought it would be better to bury it and take a tax writeoff after the film was completed rather than try to get it in front of audiences. Luckily he came to his fucking senses but still a parable of shitty Hollywood behaviour in a nutshell 2/2
Coyote vs Acme was sold out at @lighthousecinema.bsky.social today. It was enjoyed equally by a two year old, a twelve year old and their mother who drove to Dundrum to catch it A rare family crowdpleaser doing serious business with stellar reviews. But almost never got released 1/2
I'm just gonna throw out there: I have lost work, not because the people who would normally hire me are using gAI, but because Google forced it into search, completely cannibalizing the audience for my work you don't have to be in a position to hire someone to reject using gAI in favor of humans
Ciara | Ciaraíoch 🎨@ciaraioch.bsky.social · 3w agoThe amount of working artists I've spoken to who are losing or have lost the ability to make a viable career out of it due largely to people's use of genAI instead of hiring artists is genuinely so upsetting. We won't know what we've lost until it's gone.
The world we are moving towards is designed by people of kind, who so long as they are the ones with the money and the power, have no problem impoverishing the rest of us. the question is how to wrestle control of the world back from the hands of these greedy sociopaths 2/2
A few months back I was at a @google run event shilling AI. On stage a startup guy Crowes that the day of the “two employee unicorn” was near. I wasn’t sure what that meant so I looked it up. It’s a company worth a billion with only two humans working for it. This was presented as a good thing 1/2
Yet again: The problem AI is meant to solve is wages. www.reuters.com/investigatio...
Mark Zuckerberg had a bold plan to replace Meta staff with AI. Here’s how it imploded.
To make its workforce “AI native,” Meta explored slashing the size of many teams across the company by as much as 60% in two waves, internal documents show. Staff revolted - and hours before a big lay...
reuters.com
Thoughts and prayers for the writers at Spiked! As we mourn the loss of Tim Curry, Dolly Parton, & Yayoi Kusama, they‘ve lost Ratko Mladić.
The amount of working artists I've spoken to who are losing or have lost the ability to make a viable career out of it due largely to people's use of genAI instead of hiring artists is genuinely so upsetting. We won't know what we've lost until it's gone.
We went to see Coyote Vs. Acme. It's very funny but they keep calling the coyote, whose name is Wile E. Coyote, 'Wiley'. Which is maddening. It's like if you were watching a movie about JFK and everyone kept calling him Johneff.
Hi Internet! I'm Drew and THIS IS MY FACE. If this GIF has ever brought you joy in the past, I humbly ask you to consider making a donation to the National MS Society. It would mean a lot to me and to those I know affected by the disease! Donate at blinkingguy.com
Here's Amazon's two new planned fossil-fuelled AI data centres next to the ENTIRE POWER GRIDS OF SEVERAL LARGE COUNTRIES Together, the two gas-burning data centres will emit more than Spain's entire grid, if built
The fallout of the Belfast Fleadh is so cute though
Claire Mitchell@clairemitchell.bsky.social · last mo.This is from Facebook.
Where do you stand on 🤔 ? it’s maybe my favourite emoji but lots of people tell me it’s annoying - to which I can only respond with… 🤔
The *same* people that told you not to worry about climate change because it wasn’t real now tell you yeah it’s real but it’s too late so accept your fate. They were wrong then that there was nothing to worry about, and they were wrong now that there is nothing we can do.
Jared Leto and Russell Brand are the human version of "rumor" and "rumour"
bryan (Taylor’s Version)@bryan.town · 2mo agoI keep forgetting that jared leto and russell brand are different guys
I have plenty of corrupt plans for FIFA. Let me run it. One idea is letting fans pay $1000 in an app to give the player of their choice a brief electric shock
[job interview] boss: what would you do if faced with a situation where- me: give up immediately